Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a colonial Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. As a Spanish-criolla from the New Spain, she was among the main American-born contributors to the Spanish Golden Age, alongside Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Garcilaso de la Vega "el Inca", and is presently considered one of the most important female authors in Spanish language literature and the literature of Mexico.
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Hacienda of Panoaya in Amecameca, residence of the Ramírez de Santillana family.
Manuscript page from Libro de professiones y elecciones de prioras y vicarias del Convento de San Gerónimo, 1586–1713, which Sor Juana signed in ink and her own blood
Statue of Sor Juana Inés in Madrid, Spain.
The Hieronymites or Jeronimites, also formally known as the Order of Saint Jerome, is a Catholic cloistered religious order and a common name for several congregations of hermit monks living according to the Rule of Saint Augustine, though the role principle of their lives is that of the 5th-century hermit and biblical scholar Jerome.
The Monastery of Saint Mary of Parral, the current headquarters of the Order of Saint Jerome.
Entrance of the nuns' monastery of Saint Paula (Seville, Spain).
Cloister of the Monastery of Parral (Segovia, Spain).
Garden of the Monastery of Parral (Segovia, Spain).